BEGINS The Independent newspaper: “Rupert Murdoch’s Scottish Sun appears on the brink of declaring its support for the Yes campaign, delivering a PR coup for Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond, with whom he has a close rapport.

“With Mr Murdoch tweeting furiously in favour of the man who once addressed him as ‘Sir Rupert’, there was an expectation in the Glasgow newsroom of Scotland’s biggest tabloid that the paper would declare for independence.”

BEGINS The Guardian’s media commentator, Roy Greenslade: “Suddenly, Scottish independence is front page news for the London-based national press. The narrowing of the polls has concentrated editors’ attention as never before.”

A VACANCY for a communications officer is being advertised here, on behalf of Police Scotland.

The role is Glasgow-based and the deadline for applications is next Monday.

Check out the twitter feed for the allmediascotland media jobs board: allmediajobs.

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BEGINS David Maddox, in today’s Scotsman (here): “First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together leader Alistair Darling are to hold a debate on the influential website Mumsnet tomorrow, as a poll of its Scottish users shows backing for independence.”

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PAGE ten of today’s Herald carries a pic of a magazine illustrator whose work is being exhibited in Edinburgh.

Clare Mackie – who, says the newspaper, is from Kincardineshire – has, for the last 11 years, provided the illustrations for the Country Life column, My Week.

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